When you’re reading a long thread, and you’re not reading each post, but rather skimming, you’re going to be doing a lot of jumping; this was showing how quickly that can be done. Also, you don’t have the ability to do this with pages, which is another thing I was trying to show.
I’ve actually done this a lot while reading threads (though, not out of order, lol).
- Right to left, top-to-bottom? The same as the old forum (and just about anything else)?
This has nothing to do with pages or infinite scroll. - True. Having pages makes it easier to remember where something was in a thread rather than having to remember the exact (or approximate) post number.
- No different than waiting for the next page to load (except hitches are not guaranteed to happen, whereas page load times are).
Have you ever used Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel? Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets? Or simply Windows Explorer? All of those have infinite scroll. Did it ever bug you?
Just think about infinite scroll as a pages that load automatically; as in, when you get to the bottom of one page, the next page loads up automatically, without you having to do anything. This seems to be how it’s implemented internally.